Flute.



No. 766,544. PATENTE D AUG. 2, 190 1 I G. STEINERT;

FLUTE.

- APPLIGATIOITIILED AUG. 14. 1903. 7

H0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

FLUTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,544, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed g st 14, 1903. Serial No. 169,553- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GUsTAv STEINERT, a subject of the King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, residing at 17 Burgstrasse, Freiburg, Silesia, in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of Germany, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Musical Instrurhents or Flutes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to wind instruments of the flute form; and it consists in substance of an elongated torpedo-shaped body formed of any suitable resonant material, usually brass, open at boths ends, one end forming a mouth piece, with which is connected a wind-channel with a restricted flattened orifice adapted to direct the air against the edge of the sounding-orifice formed in the wall of the device adjacent to the restricted opening of such wind-channel, two thumb-orifices formed in the tube-wall on the same side and in line with the sounding-orifice, and eight finger-orifices on the other side of the instrument from the thumb and sounding orifices arranged in line at equal distances apart, such finger-orifices being each of a different diameter and being of gradually-increasing diameter from the mouth end of the instrument-body to the other end.

My said invention is fully shown and de the accompanying drawings form a part, I

wherein similar letters of reference designate like or equivalent parts wherever found throughout both views and in which- Figure 1 is a view of my said invention in central longitudinal section, and Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof.

While my improved musical instrument may be formed of many different materials, I usually and preferably form the same of sheet metal, which metal is usually of high resonance, such as brass or bronze, and the two halves to form the torpedo-shaped instrument are usually pressed or struck from sheet metal in proper form, suitably perforated, and brazed together at the edges, the partition 0, of like metal, being also secured in proper position by brazing, as shown in Fig. 1, to form the wind-passage at the mouthpiece end.

ff are-the finger-holes formed in the in strument-body on the side opposite to the thumb-holes and gradually decreasing in size from the mouth end I) to the other open end it of the instrument-body.

According to the tone, pitch, &c., desired, such instruments can be made of any suitable size and of any suitable thickness of metal.

The instrument is played in the same manner as an ordinary flute, the thumb-holes being operated by the thumbs and the fingerholes by the fingers in the well-known manner.

It will be evident to any one havinga knowledge of the construction of musical wind instruments that instruments to play in difierent keys may be made by any one skilled in the art by merely varying the various dimensions.

WVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A musical wind instrument or flute comprising a torpedo-shaped resonant body open at both ends one of which ends constitutes the mouthpiece, a sounding-orifice formed in one wall adjacent to the mouthpiece end, a windpassage leading from the mouth to the sounding-orifice having a restricted end adjacent to such orifice for properly directing the air thereto, two thumb-orificesin the body-wall in line with the sounding-orifice, and eight finger-holes arranged in a line in the body-wall on the side opposite to the thumb-orifices.

2. A musical wind instrument or flute comprising a torpedo-shaped resonant body open at both ends one of which ends constitutes the mouthpiece, a sounding-orifice formed in one wall adjacent to the mouthpiece end, a windpassage leading from the mouth to the sound ing-orifice having a restricted end adjacent to such orifice for properly directing the air thereto, two thumb-orifices in the body-wall in line with the sounding-orifice, and eight finger-holes of gradually-increasing diameter arranged in a line in the body-wall on the side opposite to the thumb-orifices.

3. A musical wind instrument or flute formed of resonant sheet metal and comprising a torpedo-shaped resonant body open at both ends one of which ends constitutes the mouthpiece, a sounding-orifice formed in one wall adjacent to the mouthpiece end, a windpassage leading from the mouth to the sounding-orifice having a restricted end adjacent to such orifice for properly directing the air thereto, two thumb-orifices in .the body-wall in line with the sounding-orifice, and eight finger-holes arranged in a line in the body-wall on the side opposite to the thumb-orifices.

4:. A musical wind instrument or flute formed of resonant sheet metal and comprising a torpedo-shaped resonant body open at both ends one of which ends constitutes the -mouthpiece, a sounding-orifice formed in one wall adjacent to the mouthpiece end, a wind- -passage leading from the mouth to the soundscribing witnesses.

' GUSTAV STEINERT. Witnesses:

ERNST KATZ, ALBERT SOHENK. 

